The Kansas Newspaper Union from Topeka, Kansas • 1

'i! (1 Newsmioer. Union he I KO. 33. TOPEKA, KANSAS, SATURDAY MARCH 1, 1884. VOL.

I. NEWS SUMMARY. itor, J. H. Robsnson, of Putnam county Attorney General, John O.

Greene, of Floyd county Superintendent of Public Instruction, S. Boyd, of Wayne county. 9 .1 A this evening, Robert, and youll mind the baby, and make the children happy, I know, and she kissed him affectionately and closed the door. Robert Holmes seemed waking from a dream. He had rarely 'spent his evenings away from home, but never in caring for children his children.

Shy as fawns, they came up to talk, and ask for stories, and finally clambered over his knees. He began to wonder after all that he and Amy had not enjoyed the children more together. Ab Amy wondered that BUYING AND SEEDING NAMES. i I 4 i 4 JH I 4 i Eists of Invalids and Dnpes Bring the Highest Price Use Made of Eetters to Quack Doctors. New York Sun.

A pleasant gray bearded gentleman sat in a Sixth Avenue elevated train, talking to a younger man. A 'reference to the occupation of the older made him say: Mine is an unusual business, see here. He pulled out a card. If his name had been Henry Jackson the card would have read HENRY JACKSON, Dealer in Names. 4 1 A i I i I Waterville Telegraph: An interesting protracted meeting has been in progress at the Lutheran church all this week.

Elder J. M. Claypool of the Christian church at Larnedlias resigned on account of dissensions among his congregatton. Lyons Republican: There were nineteen additions Sunday to the Presbyterian church, three to the Christian, and twenty-two to the M. E.

church. Halstead Independent: The protracted meeting at West Emmett is in progress this week, and we are indeed pleased to know that the effort is being met with success. Fall River Echo The religious meeting is still being held at the school house. The interest is good and a large number attended nightly. There is a great deal of good being accomplished.

Halstead Independent: The Mennonite brethren of this city are contemplating the erection of a larger church the coming season. The church they now occupy, though comfortable, is too small for their increasing congregation. Cedarville Review: During the past few weeks a series of revival meetings have been held under the auspices of Harmony church at Leasburg, and as a result seventeen new members have been added to the church. Le Roy Reporter A protracted meeting, conducted by Rev. H.

J. Walker, has been in progress at the Sunny Side M. E. church during the past week, and awakened great interest among the people of that neighborhood. Emporia Republican The audience room of the Methodist church was crowded last evening, and a revival meeting of considerable interest was held.

Rev. Hyden officiated, and made an earnest plea for the converted to come out on the Lords side. A spiritual baptism resulted, and the anxious seat was sought by many. A large number arose for the prayers of Gods people. Those who have the meetings in charge are very much encouraged at the interest which maintains and seems to increase every evening.

Nickerson Argosy: The spirit of Christian fraternity is beautifully illustrated in Nickerson. One week ago last Sabbath Rev. Hungate, the pastor of the Baptist church, was obliged to be absent, and his pulpit was supplied in the morning by Rev. A. Clark, and in tbe evening by Rev.

L. M. Hxnman, local preachers in the M. E. Church.

Last Sunday morning Rev. Brooks, pastor of the M. E. church, was not feeling well; and Rev. H.

Canfield, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church, occupied his pulpit, preaching a very excellent and acceptable discourse from the text, Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavv burdened and I will give you rest.5 Mr. Canfield also assisted Mr. Brooks in the evening service. Such a state of affairs in an community cannot fail to be productive of good. LEES SURRENDER.

disease, than that we live in modern elegance. Construct drains which will carry off every kind of liquid which comes from the home. See to it that by no possible means the drain leads to your well of drinking water. Keep your cellar not only dry, but free from ail kinds of decaying vegetable matter. Eternal vigilance is the price of health.

Coming Changes. The agricultural man of the Chicvgo Tribune remarks that cattle owners of the plains are wisely pushing the improvement of their stock as rapidly as money and the ways of. nature permit, and will soon crowd the farmers of the States more sorely than they have yet done in the markets for choice beeves. Thus far the effect of this movement has been felt but little, for many of the bulls of the first class have been kept for use in breeding to cows of a lower grade than themselves, and few of the half-breeds have appeared in the market. Enough lave come, however, to show that the Hillocks of the plains will be no insignificant rivals of the half-breed steers of the farms, and will overshadow the scrub wherever he may be raised.

It is already difficult to make a profit by growing beef in that part of the country east of the Mississippi. What the profits will be a few years hence when the ilains will send their thousands of well-ired and well-fleshed young bullocks to market may be guessed. How can the farmer hope to compete with the ranchman whose matured beeves cost but $5 to $10 on the range The use of good bulls of some milking ireed of acknowledged merit offers one way by which the competition of the free ranges of the West? may be avoided. Already some of the more prudent are taking from this inevitable rivalry some of its power to injure them by turning from the raising of beeves to the keeping of milking stock. They prefer to not wait until forced, by continued losses in an unequal and hopeless contest, to retire from the beef-producing field but even of these men the number who appreciate the value of the services of a bull of a good milking strain is much too small.

1 1 is becoming generally admitted that the Jerseys stand unequaled as butter-producers yet there are few formers in the West who will pay five dollars for the use of a Jersey bull of even the best breeding known. The trouble is that the estern farmer, and perhaps some others, cannot get rid of the notion that tbe chief purpose of the cow is to raise beef. They seem to be utterly unable to realize the character of the change which las been coming over the cattle business of this country of late years. It has been very fortunate for the farmer that the country has been in a prosperous condition, and that people have been generally employed at fair wages, and thus enabled to buy freely and so keep the prices of aeef well up. If this had not been true, the rivalry of the plains would have been severely felt long since.

A good cow can and will earn more money by the production of butter than the best bullock can earn by the produc tion of beef in a like time. Such a cow will make 200 pounds of butter in a year; this at the rate of 25 cents per pound amounts to $4.17 per month. A good, thrifty bullock will make about fifty pounds of beef per month, which at six cents per pound on foot will amount to three dollars per month. It may be that the scrub cow will make less butter, but the scrub steer will make less beef. FOREIGN Baker Pasha wears the British uniform once more.

Thousands of people are dying of fever in the south of Japan. Dr. Rafael Nunez has been elected President of Colombia. The Black Flags occupy Hunghea and tbe mouth of tbe Black river. Gen.

Gordon is sending women and children down the Nile for safety. The German newspapers are determined to make a martyr of Minister Sargent. The lower house of the Austrian reichs-ath has passed the anti-anarchist bill. A boiler explosion on a steamer at Hong Kong killed eight Europeans and nine natives. Russia offers to reduce her armament on the German frontier if Germany will do the same.

The steamer Great Eastern has been purchased by the English Government for a coal hulk at Gibralter. An ice-gorge has flooded a suburb of London, and the people have been compelled to quit their homes. Sir Henry Brand, late Speaker of the House" of Commons has been elevate to the peerage with the title of Lord Hampden. The Austrian consul at Khartoum has forwarded to El Mahdi 2,000 ransom for Catholic missionaries held as prisoners. Russia invites England to join in constructing a canal from the Sea of Aral to India in order to promote trade interests of both nations.

Bradlaugh and two thousand other sympathizers stood at the gate of a London prison to congratulate Foote, the blasphemer, on his release. A terrible hurricane prevailed in St. Georges Channel Feb. 21st and there was a a large tidal wave in the Mersey River. Considerable damage has been done by gales in the United Kingdom.

There is a strong feeling of dissatisfaction and even talk of secession, among the people of Manitoba. The refusal of the Government to pay any attention to their demand tor redress of grievances is tbe cause. Tokar surrendered to El Mahdi on Feb. 21st, and there are rumors oi a general massacred. Another report is that the members of the garrison who had wives surrendered, with a promise of protection, and that the unmarried members are trying to escape to Suakim.

El Mebdi is marching toward Khartoum. It is reported that General Graham has orders to transfer his base of operations to Suakim, whence he intends to march against Osman Digma. The Arabs are in force behind Teb, where the dead of Baker Pashas army lie unburied. Of the cargo of Canadian animals which arrived at Liverpool from Portland in the steamer Ontario, seven sheep and thirty-one beeves were found to be infected. It is believed by the inspectors at Liverpool that the disease originated there as the same vessel had taken to Portland a cargo of Herefords in poor condition.

The Egyptian situation becomes more complicated by the reports that powerful chiefs have joined the cause of El Mahdi. Refugees from Tokar bring conflicting reports one being that it is the intention of the rebels to murder the garrison, despite the promises made. Another rumor is that King John of Abyssinia has signed a cen-tract with Mahdi to remain neutral. The troops on shipboard at Trinkitat have small pox and are detained at quarantine. The black troops at fc-uakim have revolted and wilL be sent to Cairo.

Osman Digma has been reinforced by 7,000 Arabs, and now has IS, 0'M) men against 5,000 English. KANS .4 WO MEN. MISCELLANEOUS. A heavy flood in the Yellowstone has occurred. The striking weavers of Fall River have returned to work.

There were 2,000 entries at the recent bird show in Boston. The Kansas City, Des Moines Northern road has been chartered in Iowa. A The Chicago Society of the Red Cross has contributed $15,000 for the relief of the flood sufferers. The operatives of the Williston Mills have struck against a reduction of three per from their wages. Cal Mapleson has sent $2,500, the proceeds of the benefit performance in Chicago, to the Mayor of Cincinnati.

Returns from 100 counties in Missouri show an increase of $40,000,000 in taxable property over the assessment of last year. A German syndicate of Chicago is to colonize thirty thousand acres of land in Dakota, purchased from the Northern Pacific road. The widow of A. T. Stewart, has sold tbe Stewart building at Broadway and Chambers street, N.

to Judge Hilton for The Apaches who stuck to their farms last year raised 300 tons of hay, thus demonstrating that they can do a little farm work they want to. It is stated that the wheat and fruit crops in Southern California will be greatly benefited by the floods, and farmers anticipate a golden harvest. The Red river got on a rampage at Shreveport, and people and stock were transferred from submerged plantations for hundreds of miles. In obedience to the demand of the Railroad Commissioners of Missouri, the Rock Island road has promised to reduce its passenger rates in that State to three cents per mile. The Governor of California is about to call an extra session of the legislature to take action in regard to the unpaid taxes of the Central Pacific road, which aggregate $1,074,000.

The Secretary of War having been called on to furnish money to rebuild houses destroyed by the floods, replies that he is only-authorized to supply food, clothing, tents and personal necessaries. The lumber used in the scaffold on whieh John Brown was hanged was used to erect a porch for a brick dwelling at Charlestown. Recently the material was carefully stoned away by Col. John M. Coyle.

Heart disease swept away Frank C. Bradley and wife of Milwaukee, almost simultaneously. Mr. Bradley called to a neighbor for assistance, and when she entered the house she found lhe corpses on the floor. Abram W.

Carlock, who bad lived in McLean county, Illinois, for fifty-seven years, died recently leaving a fortune to his wife and eight children. He never road in a street-car or a railway coach. A cave containing gold has been found at Erin, Tenn, a small town on the Louisville Nashville road. Over $5,000 in nuggets are displayed in the stores and hun treds of men have flocked to the place and bought lots. The greater portion of 46,000 claims for rebate on tobacco have reached the first Comptroller of tbe Treasury, where they will lie for two years unless an appropriation for additional clerks is made by Congress.

A telegram from Albuquerque says: A terrible scourge is being visited on the Zuni Indians. Over one hundred children have died with the measles within the past month. The scourge is still ragiDg. Scenes about the villages are sickening in the extreme. Upon further consideration of tbe question, Gen.

Grant writes to the editor ot the Toledo Blade that he did order the Army of the Potamac to make a second attack at the battle of Cold Harbor, but later ordered its suspension, and made other arrangements. An elegantly dressed young woman entered the hallway of a public building at St. Louis, and a passer-by a few moments later found a newly born babe on the floor but the mother, notwithstanding her precarious condition, had mysteriously vanished. Heavy snows in the Rocky Mountains have prevented through traffic on the North-' ern Pacific road for five days, and a like delay will probably be caused by washouts from melted snow between Ainsworth and Sprague. There are two hundred passengers at the latter place.

The mi ners of Colorado and the Black Hills are represented as flockiDg to the Cour dAlene discoveries in Idaho. Two hundred men have wintered in the snow bound valley. The towns of Eagle and Hays have been started, and municipal governments have been established. No claims can be jumped until June 1. Meals cost $1 and drinks 25 cents.

Four saw-raills and a telephone line are now under construction. too, had feelings, and declined what I could duly regard as a duty. At 4:30 p. m. the Second army corps was formed in a close column to hear the terms of surrender.

We were addressed by Gen. Gordon, who sat upon his horse in front with his hat in his hand, in the most moving manner and impressive speech to which I ever listened. Circumstances gave it force and character. During his delivery men could be seen weeping on every side. Men who had aced death on many battle-fields, and tad fought with manly firmness from Bull Run to Appomattox, were breaking down under the force of that terrible word, surrender.

But the brave can weep as well as fight for their country. Upon going to the division ordinance wagons I found the Lieutenant commander weeping like a child. Addressing me, le said: "I have fought the Yankees from the beginning until now, and to surrender to them is more than I can bear. It seems that it will break my heart. Hope was dead.

The grave was ready. Its uneral solemnities were too weighty for brave. Night came on. But what a night Such stealing as took place I never read or heard of before. It seemed as if everything that could be stolen was stolen.

Just before the sun went down a subaltern of the Quarter-masters department, whose condition bespoke an excess of whisky, stepped up to me and with much earnestness said: I tell you the Confederacy is gone up. Now, Jeff Da vis owes you and me a pretty good sum of money. Suppose that, as soon as it gets dark, we go the wagons, get a horse apiece, and strike out for home? If we dont do that we will never eta cent. I had to decline the offer of my would be friend. On the next day I bought a horse for $1, a bridle for $5, and a saddle for $60.

My $1, steed would have borne, with the exception of his eyes, some resemblance id the charger rode by the Knight of La 'Mancha. On the afternoon of Tuesday, the 12th, our parole papers were announced as ready, and were all duly signed, and by the terms of surrender we we were permitted to go home. On Wednesday morning the Confederate army was to stack arms. At sunsrise the Second army corps was paraded for the last time. Earlys division, led by Gen.

Walker, took tbe front. He rode one of finest horses I saw in the whole army, and placed himself in the march at the head ofthe division. My place wa3 in the rear of my brigade with the surgeons. But we were now passing under the yoke, and I had become infected with the demoralization prevalent. I fell in behind Gen.

Walker upon my $1 horse, no man saying yea nor nay. The march was as solemn as a funeral procession. Not a man spoke a word. The Federal army, at least a portion of it, was drawn up between our camp and the Court-House on our left, about forty steps from the road, and stood at order arms. When our division had reached the left of this line the word halt was given.

Left, face, forward, march, followed. When the advancing line bad approached within ten paces of the Federal line the command halt was heard. Then came the order stack arms. The rifles were stacked in the customary style, and the cartridge-boxes hung upon them. Then came the last, order I heard given in the Army of North Virginia, Fall in forward, march.

As the columns reached the village where the public roads diverge, every officer and man struck for home by the most direct rute. Not a word of cheering was heard from the Federal troops. Perhaps this was Gen. Grants orders. They looked on in silence.

An idle myth has been invented that Gen. Lee surrendered under an apple tree. Pieces of wood have been shown about as pieces of the identical tree. Gen Lee surrendered in the hotel at the Court-House. Here he and Grant met, and nowhere else.

Here, at Gen. Grants writing, table, he signed the stipulation in the afternoon. Lees notes were sent from where our baggage train was packed by the roadside in the old and, my opinion is that there was nothing bearing the semblance of an apple tree within half a mile of the place. Small, scrubby, pine bushes were plentiful. Everybody ought to know that if Gen.

Grant had come within the Confederate lines he would have lost his life, or if Lee had gone within the Federal lines he would have met with the same fate. Chaplain Davis in Catholic Herald. Sickness and Death from. Ignorance. North Topeka Mail.

People who live in Kansas should as a rule enjoy good health. We have life-giving breezes and no stagnant pools, but clear running streams and well watered bottoms and uplands. Everything in nature tends to prolong life and build up a race of men as hardy as the Scottish Highlanders. These are facts which stand out prominently and yet there is a variety of diseases prevailing; diseases which are not peculiar to the climate but are of artificial growth and production. They, as a rule, come from causes which are artificially produced.

Take, for instance, a home built on one of our beautiful prairies. Everything is done to make that home comfortable, but there is just one thing lacking, and that is drainage. The slop water is emptied in a given place and left to soak into the ground. It floods the surface for a great distance round, breeds foul vapors which hand like a pall around the house every still night and penetrate the house itself. Often the drainage is to the well which supplies the family with water.

Every inmate of the house becomes to a certain extent charged with the poison. Is it any wonder then that diphtheria, scarlet fever, and malarial diseases break out? It would be no exaggeration to say that more than one-half the diseases of Kan sas are produced by causes similar to the one mentioned, and still the destruction goes on day after day and year after year. One of the laws of nature is violated, and the penalty is death. Men will tell you that a certain locality is un-healthv, and while they may speak the truth they are not aware that it was made unhealthy by man. If the persons who poison a home and its surroundings were the only onps to suffer, it wouk not be so bad, but the innocent visitor and the traveler drink of the water anc breathe in the poisonous vapors anci carry away with them the seed which finally germinates and brings forth deadly disease.

And so the angel of death is kept hovering over a naturally healthy country through the ignorance of men and women. These -are not overdrawn fancies but literal facts anc if we could impress the importance them on the minds of our readers anc rouse them to action, it would be a great satisfaction. It is of vastly more importance that our homes be protected against CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. John Miller, an old man, committed suicide at Freeburg, 111. Harry Jenkins was drowned by the falling of a bridge at Apollo, Pa.

Several of the State reformatory buildings burned at Ioniaj Mich. The Mountain House at Plymouth, N. has been destroyed by fire. Five cars were wrecked and two brake-men killed near Longview, Texas. Mrs.

Hullry, a prominent lady of Switzerland county, was drowned in the flood. Mitchell, the pugilist, lias arrived from England and is anxious to meet Sullivan again. Two trains on the St. Louis Air Line road collided at Louisville, slightly injuring several passengers. A Catholic school burned -at Kershena, Wis.

Seventy pupils and six sisters escaped in their night clothes. Dr. J. W. Hollenbeck, a prominent doctor of Menden, Nebraska, dropped dead caused by an epileptic fit.

The Rich Ilill, postoffice has been burglarized of $1,000 in cash and stamps. The safe was drilled. Frederick Baum has been arrested at Dallas, on seven charges of swindling on bills of lading of cotton. Helge Helgerson was killed and Ole Hegg, and Martin Larsen injured by a snow plow at Norcross, Minn. Walter C.

Sheppard the trusted bookkeeper ot Brigham Boston, has been arrested, charged with embezzlement. At Birds Point, eighteen houses were demolished by a storm, and all of New Madrid, is reported to be inundated. Mrs. Busey, of Troy, N. shot another woman, whom she alleged was her mistress.

The wound was not fatal. James R. Partridge, formerly connected with the diplomatic service of the United States in South America, committed suicjde in Spain. George Smith, corporation attorney of Union City, killed hiin-'elf because of complications wi.h the insurance companiies he represented. John Gossman won the amateur running championship at New Yoik recently, defeating Peter Golden in the thirty-live mile race in 4.22:22.

George H. F.yer, one of the best-known miners of Colorado, who lost $500,000 within the past two years, killed himself at Denver with morphine. A frightful explosion occurred at West Leisemng shaft, a few miles from C'oimelis-ville, in which seventy-five men were at work. Fifty, were killed. The body of Salmi Morse, who attempted to present the Passion Play in New -York City, has been found in the Hudson river.

He was fifty-eight years old. The National and Nashville hotels, two small frame buildings, in Denver burned Feb. 25tb. Four men, Whalen, McGuire, Sullivan and an unknown, perished. The body of Fred Nelson was found five miles from where he was overtaken by a blizzard in Minnesota.

His two children who were with nim have not been found. While at target-practice in the suburbs of Erie, John McLord deliberately fired at two boys who were passing, wounded both seriously. He has not been arrested. A satchel, containing Zura Burns gossamer and hat has been found and it is believed that the authorities now have evidence which will surely convict her murderer. Benj.

McCloud, a mine boss at Jackson, Ohio, was recently murde-ed and robbed and his body placed on the railroad track. Geo. Johnson and a woman have been arrested. 5 Four boys, from ten to seventeen years old, while hunting south of Omaha, exploded a powder house containing over six tons of powder. All four were blown to atoms.

J. H. Hall and David Long, the men arrested for the Mt. Pulaski murders, were examined at Lincoln, 111., andthe preliminary hearing set for March 5. Other arrests are pending.

Robert Bailey, colored, of Toledo, Ohio, has been convicted of marrying a white girl, under the law to prevent miscegenataoD, and been fined $100, and sentenced to three months imprisonment. At the funeral of the three Negroes who were murdered and sold to a medical college in Cincinnati, lynching was advocated by two preachers, the sentiment evoking great applause. A farmer named John Johnson was robbed and beaten by two marked men near Berlin Cross-roads, Ohio. They got $100 in cash and $2,000 in notes, etc. Johnson as terribly wounded.

Neal McKeague, Sr of Thorold, Ontario, visited his son in the jail at Chicago, and after an interview of an nour, expressed the utmost confidence in the young mans innocence of the WiLlson murder. Louis Haas, a handsome young German, who was arrested in Chicago for deiraudmg a hotel, claims to have lost sarly $10,000 at poker in two nights at the ands of men representing tb emselves as traveling salesmen. Henry C. Ely, an insane man residing in East Granby, Connecticut, killed Ids guardian, J. J.

Harden, with au ax, chopped the head from the body, and knocked it twenty feet away. He had not been regarded as dangerous. The damage to the South' ern Pacific road by tbe California floods, amounts to half a million dollars. There was a Bad washout on tbe Central Pacific at Mill City. A thousand feet of snow sheds were crushed in Emigrant Gap.

On Feb. 21st one hundred pounds of dynamite exploded seven miles north of Omaha, Neb. Thoa. Burns was torn into fragments and shreds of flesh were scattered several hundred yards. G-reat gaps were made in the earth and a number ot buildings.

R. W. Reid, a retail confectioner aid three clerks in a wholesale conf ectionery in St. Louis, have been arrested or swindling the proprietors of the latter hoiose. The clerks are charged with duplicating -Reids orders one or more times and getti rig nominal pay themselves instead of charging the goods to Reid.

Near Humboldt, after a dispute over some land claimed by Hup Guilland, but owned by Mrs. Howe, Giiland assisted by his three sons, Joseph, Andrew and Ike, killed James T. Harclerod and Robert McFarland. The former was shot in tbe back and killed instantly and McFarland was shot three times and his aead crushed with a club. The murderers nsedped but were so closely pursued that the rode to Humboldt and surrendered to the Sheriff All parties were Land Leaguers but.

the organization is said to be blameless. Wont you explain? said tne young man. I buy and sell the addresses of the people in all parts of the United States and Canada. There are hundreds of bus iness men who reach their customers by circulars, as well as by advertising in tho newspapers. Thus a book publisher gets out a new book which he wants to sell through agents.

He is anxious to lean, the names and addresses of all the men and women in the United States who sell supscription books. He also wants the names of those who sell other goods in the same way, because they are very likely to drop the other article for the sake of the new book. Then he wants the addresses of the people who have never acted as agents, but who want to try to see what they can do. He advertises for agents in a variety of papers, at a pretty heavy expense. 1 It costs him several cents for every letter of inquiry about his book that he receives.

To that letter of inquiry he sends his elaborate circulars. I come to the relief of the publisher by selling him a very large number of agents addresses at a small part of the cost of getting them by advertising. How do you get them? You see, every publisher has a list of agents whom he has employed at one time and another. Nearly every one will send me a copy of his list for consideration. The combined copies make a formidable pile of manuscript.

Theu there are the novelty men, who accumulate large lists of names of agents. Agents form one line of special names. Invalids form another. Do yon mean sick people Not necessarily. Every community has a lot of people who are always buying medicine.

They are the most valuable lot an advertiser can reach. The consumption-remedy circular gives them a hacking cough and a hectic flush. The blood-purifier circular flushes them with eczema. So it goes through the list of chronia and acute ills that flesh is heir to. They will buy anything from beef and bark to a steam atomizer to doctor a sprained foot.

All these people at one time or another write to some advertising doctor or vender of the elixir of life. I buy the names from the advertiser, classify them according to the number of times the names have been used bv medical men and the last diseases that afflicted the writers, and sell them over and over again. Sometimes-1 sell the original letters outright. The careful advertiser sometimes varies the character of the circulars sent according to the characteristics of the letter-writer, even writing a personal letter in some cases. What other classes have you? Two general classes.

One for the sharper and one for the general advertiser. The latter class is cosmopolitan. It includes all others, really, but it is made up mostly of farmers. For instance, in New York, Rochester, and Detroit are several firms of dealers in garden and form seeds. They get hundreds of thousands of letters every year.

To those addresses circulars of all kinds of farm and household goods, books, jewelry, that a man or woman doesnt need but is sure to want, can be sent with great profit. The names for the use of sharpers are the most profitable of all, and yield the largest returns of all concerned, except the ones addressed. Once we get a name on that list we know it will pan out till the man dies. The addresses of all people who buy tickets in lotteries, who write to dealers in facsimile greenbacks, and who write to other advertisers who offer to give something for noth-, ing, are very carefully arranged by themselves. They are usually very smart in their own conceit, but they mbble at a bare hook.

What prices do these names bring? I have got as high as $25 a thousand for names for sharpers use. Good lists of habitual invalids are worth all the way from $10 to $20 a thousand. Agents are so easily obtained that $10 is a big price from $3 to So is ordinary. General-use lists copied off the letters Dring from $3 to $5 where they have not been mailed to more than twice. When mailed to oftener, and where a year or two old, they get down to $1 a thousand.

Are many in this business of yours Not continually. They drop in, make a good thing, and straightway begin mailing circulars on their own account. The number of actual addresses handled by me in one year has never exceeded 1,000,000, but it has crowded that figure closelv. Afterwards. It wont be perfect bliss.

You are exj peering too much, Amy. Robert Joves you devotedly, but you are losing all individuality. I am very happy, Esther. I suppose Robert is not perteet, but he is manly, and fond of me. But is he more anxious for your happiness than for his own Does he eav, as Wilhelm Meister said to Aurelia, No woman shall receive an acknowledgement of love from my lips to whom I cannot consecrate my life Robert is ambitious.

He craves approbation and you give it. He feels the stimulus of your presence and your love. I dont think Robert is selfish. You know life is very absorbing to an active man. But love is not self abnegation, Amy.

It is mutual helpfulness. Lean as you will, only command reverence while you win love. Amys house was beautiful. Perhaps she idealized her husband, but she was satisfied. He had brought purity to his home, that priceless gift of one immortal being to another.

A new life had come into the family circle a baby girl, with her fathers face cast by Gods hand in the daintier mold of womanhood. He was proud of, and the mother grateful for, the other self. But there came days of anxiety and nights of weariness. Robert, wont you get up- and care for the baby I am so tired. I must have sleep, Amy, and not he bothered at night.

Shell get over crying; and he soon slept heavily. The mother, wounded in heart, crept out of bed and carried the baby half the night in her arms, her tears falling on its chubby face. Robert did not mean to be so unkind, she reasoned to herself, but, then, was not the baby his child as well as hers? Lines made themselves on Amys young face, and, day by day, by so much as a hairs breadth, it might be, husband and wife grew apart. He read much, she little. She was devoted to her child, he to business and his own Did he love her all the time? He thought so, only he lacked consideration.

She looked carefully after his every comfort, but with something lacking from the old joy in doing. When other children came, not always welcome to the over-worked mother, Robert seemed more and more a boarder in his home. Canon Farrar says: One living soul has a soothing power like the shining of the sunlight, or the voice of doves at evening, and this to Amy was wanting. Sunlight and evening were becoming alike to her. Robert walked sometimes with her and the children, but he usual ly enjoyed nature alone.

By and by How the Confederate Army Finally Sue cumbed Graphic Description of an Historical Event The Apple-Tree Myth. The eventful day, Sunday, April 9th, 1865, dawned upon us. A nigjits rest lad greatly refreshed the worn-out Con- derates. The line of march was taken up just after the first gleam of light showed itself in the east. Farlys old division, composed of two North Caro-ina brigades and one from Virginia, took the front under Brig.

Gen. Walker. Fighting was expected. Tbe confederate sharpshooters, who composed the skirmish line, had scarcely passed the Court-House which is a small village, when they came in contact with tbe Federal pickets. A lively fusillade ensued.

The line of battle was quickly formed, under the eye of Gen. Gordon. The battle soon became furious. The first line of Federal troops was soon broken and driven back with loss. I was sitting upon a bank by the roadside noting events in my diary, when, at 8:30 oclock, two captured batteries of Federal artillery eight guns were driven by me going to the rear.

In a few moments the fire in the rear ceased, and I could discover our troops falling sack, and taking up new positions by arigades to the rear. At the same time a white flag, borne ty a couple of Federal officers at full speed, came out from the Court-House, and went to the rear and met Gen. Lee where our baggage wagons were packed at the commencement of the action. In few minutes another white flag, borne by a couple of Confederate officers, was dispatched to the Court-House. The road was quickly-cleared of every obstruction, and guards placed along it to keep everybody out of it, that the flag-bearers might pass from one point to another at full speed.

At this period the excitement among the Confederate troops became intense, as it was well understood the Confederate army was on the point of being surrendered. Many seemed anxious to lead forward to conquer or die on the field. Desperation seemed to take hold of the men, or else the men were over come by desperation. I quickly resolved tha 1 would not be included in the surrender, and formed a plan with a choice spirit to escape from the field and take care of myself. One oclock p.

m. was the hour at which I was to strike for lib erty or safety. Unwilling to act covertly in the matter, at 12 oclock a. m. I went to my brigade commander and asked him if he thought such a step on my part would compromise my honor in the brigade.

He replied Considering the relation you sustain to your regiment, think you would better maintain your honor by abiding its fate. His answer subdued me, and at once I abandoned my plan of escape. But numbers did escape, and in no case did I hear of a failure on the part of any who made the attempt. The first flag from Gen. Grant to Gen.

Lee came at 8 oclock a. m. by watch. These flags continued to pass and repass until 4 p. m.

History often represents things strangely. History gives Gen. Grants first letter on this day to Gen. Lee at 12.30 p.m., when I have no doubt Gen. Lee received Gen.

Grants first note at 8:30 a. m. The morning had been bright and fair. By noon dark and gloomy clouds had gathered over the whole face of the sky. All nature around us seemed to harmon ize with our feelings.

Sadness and gloom were impressed upon all things, both animate and inanimate. Men were growing desperate officers were breaking their swords to pieces to avoid the dishonor of surrendering them. Maj. Gen G. W.

Picket, who had led the storming column on the third day at Gettysburg! tore up his flag and wore it around his shoulders. Men have feelings. They cannot control these feelings at all times and under all circumstances. My brigade surgeon Came to me and urged me to preach a discourse to the troops. Various Things Concerning them.

Topeka has a female barber. Two ladies in Burlingame are engaged in. a libel suit. Miss Lou Clark manages the Emporia telephone exchange. The Cincinnati College of Music is filling up with Kansas girls.

Miss Etta Gilbert is the prize speller in Geneva, Sumner county. The ladies of the Topeka Turn Verein celebrated Washingtons birth-day with a leap year ball. A Quakeress, in Sumner county, converted to her faith a gentleman -who was paying her attention. Miss Jane Carroll has been appointed and confirmed as deputy county clerk of Wyandotte county, at a salary of $50 per month. Miss Stella Mattocks, of Wauneta, Chautauqua county, was severely burned recently, her clothes having caught from the kitchen stove.

Mrs. H. R. Daniels, of Phillipsburg, wanted quinine, but took strychnine. She took enough to kill three persons and thus saved one.

McPherson Freeman Miss Anna Swanberg, a young Swede girl about twenty years of age, broke her leg, just above" the ankle, at the skating rink. Burlingame Democrat: Miss Eunice Filly, while visiting her brother and family, at Kingman, took part in a con cert. Miss Filley is rapidly establishing a State reputation as a singer. Sedan Journal: Mrs. S.

D. Sisk, of Wauneta, came near meeting with a fatal accident a few days ago, caused by using coal oil to kindle a fire with. Her face and hands were pretty badly burned. Anthony Republican: There is one lady that attends the skating rink that we will wager our last dollar on can run down the whole dude family, taking them one at a time. She is not so swift, but then she is a stayer.

The ladies of the Topeka Turn Verein have set out to organize an auxiliary branch, having for its objects the encouragement and cultivation of social matters and assistance to poor, worthy German people who need help. El Dorado Republican The programmes of the leap year ball, printed at the Republican office contained, out of twenty-three dances in all, seventeen waltzes and the ladies furnished the copy. Evidently the El Dorado ladies are in favor of hugging, by a large majority. KANSAS CHURCHES. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

The Indiana Democratic Convention will be held June 25th. Senator Payne has written a card stating that he will not be a candidate for the Presidential nomination. Lieutenant Harber, who brought back from Siberia the bodies of De Long and his comrades, was given a public reception at Youngstown, Ohio, which was attended by five thousand persons. A caucus of Democratic Congressmen appointed a committee to take preliminary steps toward organizing for the next political campaign. Isaac P.

Hill, of Ohio has been appointed Sergeant-at-arms of the convention and Wm. H. Shelby, of Minnesota, assistant. 8amuel Donaghy, once a prominent Democratic politician of Pensylvania, died recently in the insane asylum at Weston, aged 80 years. He was a warm personal fnend of Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan.

His mind became affected by a fall from a platform in Missouri in 1840. The Democratic National Committee met in Washington on Feb. 22d. Kansas being represented by Hon. C.

W. Blair of Leavenworth. The meeting was conducted with closed doors. July 8th, was selected as the date for holding the convention and Chicago was fixed upon as the place. The call instructs the sending of two delegates and two alternates for each Congressman and Senator in each State, and two from each Terri-torv.

The Republican Congressional Committee of the Fourth District of Kansas met in Emporia Feb. 22d and determined to call a District Convention to be held in Emporia, April 23d to elect delegates to the National Convention and one Presidential elector. The basis will be the same as the State call. Also to call a Congressional Convention to be held May 22d, to nominate a candidate for Congress. The Greenbacker of Indianapolis have nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, H.

II. Leonard, of Cass county Lieutenant Governor, John B. Milroy, of Carroll county Secretary of State, F. T. Warring, of Wells county; Treasurer, Thompson Smith, of Wayne county Aud- Unexpected Discovery in a Goblet.

Hartford Times. At a gentlemens dinner party in this city, recently one of the guests, catering to what some consider a depraved taste for ice-water, was seen to lower his goblet before it touched his lips and peer into its crystal depths through his eye-glasses. What is this? he asked, Amy folded her hands in the rest that comes once to all. Did Robert mourn her? Yes, for she had made his home attractive. Months after, when he grew lonely and desolate, he married Esther.

Society gossiped and marveled, and said she would follow in the footsteps of Amy. Circumstances make men as they make women, and blind lack of consideration can be cured, though the new wife. Where are my slippers, Esther? Just where you left them, my dear, said a voice full of love and kindness. Robert looked for a moment as a man just awaking from a and then wisely waited upon himself. I am obliged to go away on an errand as he agitated the water with his fork.

A little fish, I declare. And, sure enough, there was a wee bit of a fish, too small to be seen easily with the naked eye, bvt plainly visible through strong eye-glasses, and lively enough for drinking purposes. Stir him up and he would dart swiftly through the water and lose himself behind the ice. The cause of temperance suffered by the incident, as Trout Brook water was at discount after this discovery. The mountains of Gellivara, in' tha most northern part of Sweden, consist of pure magnetic iron in immense layers or eeveral hundred feet in thickness upon the surface ofthe ground.

Items of all Kinds Concerning Them. The M. E. church at Kingman was dedicated recently. The contract for the Catholic chuych at Perry has been awarded.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church recently gave an egg-social. The German Baptists seem to be the most prosperous church at Gaylord. 1.